Simply worded, yet emotionally charged, with immense feeling! I makes me want to know more, but since there was no indication of an author, that will probably never be. Might be better off not opening old wounds.

I lost a cousin there and his mother had two younger boys. The youngest made a career of the military and although now retired, he was still active at the time of Dessert Storm. When his orders came down for deployment, his mothers almost went berserk, believing he was headed into harms path. When it was fully learned he was headed to Germany, she gradually accepted his deployment with much relief. But she wasn't overly fond of his being in Germany, believing those closest would be inserted into harms way as the first round of backup troops, if a larger force became necessary.

But I am sure any mother under similar circumstances would have her anxious moments.